MONICA’S 3 MINUTE TALK  8th November

 
I want to tell you about a charity that I am involved with
The recipients of this charity have a peculiar trait, they attempt suicide at 10 times the national average.....
Around 41% of this section of society attempt suicide.
That rate increases markedly to 60 or 70% if they have been physically or sexually abused or bullied.
What you might ask would cause people to commit suicide at such a rate.
They are rejected and shunned by their families and friends and this leads to depression, poverty, despair and finally suicide.
 
What is the terrible crime of these people that makes them be rejected, ridiculed and abused by their families and former friends you might ask?
 In truth, they have a medical condition that they can do nothing about and because of this they are shunned.
What, in this day and age would make society shun people with a medical condition?
 
Well, let me set the scene. All human foetuses are originally female. At around 11 weeks, a hormonal wash from the mother causes the foetus to physically change to a male. If this hormonal wash is defective then the foetus becomes inter-sexed or hermaphrodite.
This happens in about 1 in 10,000 births.
 
About a week later, another hormonal wash changes the brain of the foetus to correspond with the genitals. If this wash is defective then the foetus ends up later in life as transgender.
 
It is this difference, the difference between the assigned gender (between the legs) and the felt gender (between the ears) that causes people to be transgender.
 
They do not choose this, they inherited it...and it is the shunning and abusing of these people which causes their suicides and deaths.
 
A TG person is killed somewhere in the world every day. In 2015 25 TG women were murdered in the US. How many committed suicide we will never know as the reason for suicide does not appear on the death certificate.
 
So, what is my involvement with this charity?
Moved by the senselessness of all this, it struck me that TG people and their friends and family see being TG as a curse.
So, I thought if I could change it around to be seen as a gift, this would help stop the suicides and murders.
 
 I wrote a book called "The gift of being Transgender" and I have donated the proceeds of this book to the suicide prevention hotline in NZ - Helpline.
 
The government recently cut funding for this organisation and, apparently, it has only enough money to keep going for one more year. As you can imagine, I am very passionate about transgender suicide….it is a tragic waste of a life brought about by a medical condition….how bizarre!